Saturday, October 20, 2007

I was just watching another attempt by human rights lawyers, perhaps funded by the UK tax payer, to try to blacken the names of our soldiers in Iraq on Channel 4 news.

Its time we gave fuller support to our servicemen. Maybe a few human rights lawyers should be prosecuted and serve time if its shown they pursued cases they knew to be malicious. ( Well that would stop any lawyers being available to prosecute you might say - but attacking servicemen by second guess decisions and events in the heat of battle has the same effect and the lawyers are paid far better for no risk of being killed.)

I was equally shocked by BBC Radio 4 treatment of the end of operation Banner ( the Army's support for the police in Northern Ireland ) when the BBC rolled out a known republican, pretending to just be a resident, to bad mouth some of the bravest and most decent men any country could be fortunately enough to be able to call upon.

I am however a fan of the type of support that America gives to the part of its family that it asks to serve. See below - does anyone know of an equivalent bit of popular music from England ?

No democracy for England

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The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.